Could energy overload drive cancer risk?
It's well-known that obesity, diabetes and chronic inflammation are major risk factors for cancer. But just how cancer evolves in people with these diseases --...
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Do we have an epidemic? Enhancing disease surveillance using a health information exchange
The key? Changing public health reporting from passive to proactiveCredit: Regenstrief Institute INDIANAPOLIS - How do public health officials know if there is a disease...
FEBS | EMBO Women in Science Award 2019 awarded to Sara Linse
Heidelberg, 11 February 2019 - EMBO and the Federation of European Biochemical Societies (FEBS) announce Sara Linse of Lund University, Sweden, as the recipient of...
Is our personality affected by the way we look? (Or the way we think we look?)
Research team at the University of Göttingen disproves previous assumptionsCredit: AG Nachhaltigkeit To what extent is our personality an adaptation to our appearance or even...
Acoustic waves can monitor stiffness of living cells
Technique sheds light on cells' health and development; may be useful for precision medicine CAMBRIDGE, MA -- MIT engineers have devised a new, noninvasive way...
Tuberculosis: Inhibiting host cell death with immunotherapy
Credit: University Hospital Cologne Tuberculosis treatment still entails the intake several antibiotics over a period of many months and is torturous for many patients. The...
Researchers develop flags that generate energy from wind and sun
Credit: Dr. Mostafa Nabawy, The University of Manchester Scientists have created flags that can generate electrical energy using wind and solar power. The novel wind...
Spinal cord is 'smarter' than previously thought
Research shows our spinal cords contribute to sophisticated hand function We often think of our brains as being at the centre of complex motor function...
NIH researchers home in on genes linked to age-related macular degeneration
Findings point to potential treatment strategiesCredit: National Eye Institute National Eye Institute scientists led a collaborative study and zeroed in on genes associated with age-related...
Gene involved in colorectal cancer also causes breast cancer
The search for new genetic causes of cancer continues Rare mutations in the NTHL1 gene, previously associated with colorectal cancer, also cause breast cancer and...
Motor enzyme protects genome through several mechanisms
Credit: Mattias Pettersson A helicase, Pfh1, can thanks to several different mechanisms protect the genome from DNA obstacles and damages associated with cancer. This is...
RUDN biochemists found a way to stop the immortality of cancer cells with oligonucleotides
RUDN biochemists found a way to reduce the activity of telomerase (the enzyme of cell immortality) 10 timesCredit: Natalia Deryugina RUDN biochemists found a way...
Many Arctic lakes give off less carbon than expected
Credit: David Butman/University of Washington The Arctic is warming twice as fast as the rest of the planet. One consequence of that trend is the...
Immunotherapy can be effective in treating people with recurrent glioblastoma
UCLA-led research could be step toward new therapy for hard-to-treat brain cancer A UCLA-led study suggests that for people with recurrent glioblastoma, administering an immunotherapy...
New role for death molecule
To unravel programmed cell death pathways, investigators examine a molecule deemed unimportant, and find new functionCredit: John Dowling, Jefferson (Philadelphia University + Thomas Jefferson University)....
